Appa and the Internet

In the mid ninety's (it makes me feel so old when I write this) when the act of creating or having a yahoo and hotmail email accounts were considered geeky and classy my dad sat down next to me one day and asked me to explain this whole thingy about the email ...internet and stuff...I got all enthu and started by saying the procedure to create an account first which can be used for sending and receiving emails.. given the fact how detail oriented my dad is he started off with his questionnaire session...what is that you call a password....when u hit the send button where is your content exactly stored , in the satellite...what is the meaning of yahoo....what do you mean when you say right click the mouse or left click ...to be honest I tried my best to control my laughter at certain instances and tried to say that it is enough if he knows the procedure in steps to start with..but at some point he got frustrated and he got up and said he would better join a class to learn these things and there it ended. After I got married and came to the US I had told him so many times to learn to use the internet and send emails as it will make the communication better instead of calling or waiting for my call...and now after 8 years he is visiting US again, he asked me to teach him about the whole thingy about email and stuff...I kid u not the whole saga of questions came out again...he is so apprehensive in trying out or exploring for himself that he intmidates himself more with his questions...finally I said that I will create an account on his name and would operate it on his behalf. He has been happily giving out his email Id to whoever he is talking to and my job is to get a print out of his emails and type the reply for them as he dictates...fun !!

They have arrived....

We had left the kids with my parents in chennai for couple of months and they came back home last week. It was a nice mutual break for both us and them. I had mixed feelings , I was both enjoying my time alone as well as missing them so much. Good times doesn't last forever do they? so here I am facing the reality which is I HAVE a HYPER ACTIVE TWIN GIRLS as my treasure (or torture!!)...

They started their Kindergarten in a new school and they were excited to go to school of course only on the first day because of new backpack shoes etc and after second day Sandhya asked me.."Amma, after two days it is going to be the weekend right", I said "Yes, why are you asking"... "can we go back to India ?"..since they were vacationing in India they were having this notion that they are supposed have all the fun there in India enjoying everybodys attention (which they were severly lacking here) sometime like this its really fun to be around them when they utter something as naive as this :) then me and M explained that there is nothing like being at home where ever they are, even if they wanted to stay in Chennai they have to go to school like their cousins do and do the loads of home work like them...it sure made them think, they did not open up going to India after that :)